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The fortuity in me receiving a tampon ad while looking up pictures of astarion is

#bg3 #bg3 memes #bg3 astarion #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #memes #vampire

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

Maybe a weird take, but I think the old, weird, racist and just whacked-out descriptions of D&D's "always evil" species work if you assume they're in-universe propaganda. Like, the whole "drow are led by women, are always naked, are back-stabbing, duplicitous, keep men as slaves, and have strange rituals involving a spider goddess" might be inspired by the truth, but it sure sounds like the kind of thing an uptight, patriarchal society would write about a group of people they want burn at the stake, right? Like if someone told me that was pulled straight from the Malleus Maleficarum I'd probably believe them. "Orcs and goblins are stupid, violent, cannibalistic raiders who will raze your town and steal your women back to their backwards cave towns" really sure sounds like the kinda thing you read in historical texts about a society when the empire wants to justify colonizing them.

And the fact that all these "evil, barbaric" species always seem to have beef with the high elves, well, kinda points the finger toward whose leaders are spreading the narrative, don't it?

Like I don't blame anyone for wanting to move away from "fantasy racism" in their fun improv game with friends, I think that's great. But you still see "fantasy racism" show up a lot in contemporary campaigns and it always seems to be justified in-universe (except against tieflings, I guess) and that just DOESN'T sit with me

Just give another side to the story. High elves have this whole mythology about how Corellon cast down Lolth and all her children for being a traitor - and that story exists in-universe, and it's probably the first one humans hear. But you really think that's the drow side of the story? Really?? "Thats so interesting that you worship a god of the sun, we worship a traitor spider adulteress who turns us into mutants for failing arbitrary tasks" like FUCK that what's their actual version of the Corellon-Lolth cycle mythos?

emy-san

That night of pain.

poetsiren

😭😭😭💔 Cazador will get what he deserves.

poetsiren

Bringing this back, because it's stunning and heartbreaking!

majodump

Quick doodles during break

knightsickness

love this image bc what did the princess do to make the crowd shout and throw tomatoes at her. i know it wasnt nothing

nitashinori

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

galesilkleaf

death note, UK

jbenn656

Wedding Peach, US

barbaric-bliss

Ouran high school host club, US

#lol

contemptible-scoundrel

Ccan i hit?

I would parry every blow?

raviolirash

A white haired cat pets a cat.

nohardheroes

AVATAR → Video-Game Menu Screen Trend

The Legend of Aang / Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender

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